an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group

Caprice

a sudden impulsive seemingly unmotivated notion or action; a sudden change or series of change

Circumspect

careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences; prudent

Dirge

song or hymm of grief or lamentation

a slow solemn mournful piece (funeral memorial)

Dredge

to dig gather or pull out with or as if with a dredge; to bring to light by deep searching; an apparatus usually in the form of an oblong iron frame with an attached bag net used especially for gathering fish and shellfish; a machine for removing earth

Edict

a proclamation having the force of law; order; command;

Expend

spend; utilize; to make use of for a specific purpose; to pay out;

Expiate

to put an to ; to extinguish the guilt incurred by; to make amends for

Harry

ASSAULT; to force to move along by harassing

Impotent

lacking in power strength vigor; helpless; sterile; ungovernable

Laden

to put a load or burden on or in; LOAD
to put or place as a load; ship; ladle; to take cargo

Latent

present and capable of becoming though not now visible obvious or active

Parry

to ward off a weapon or blow; to evade or turn aside something; to ward off; to evade esp. by an adroit answer

Rue

regret sorrow; to feel penitence remorse or regret for

Saturnine

cold and steady in mood; slow to act or change; of a gloomy or surly disposition; having a sardonic aspect

Throe

PANG SPASM; a hard or painful struggle

Vagary

an erratic unpredictable or extravagant manifestation action or notion; caprice

Vigil

a watch formerly kept on the night before a religious feast with prayer or other devotions; the day before a religious feast

WATCH

Wraith

the exactlikeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition; GHOST SPECTER; an insubstantial form or semblance

Casuistry

specious argument RATIONALIZATION

Expatiate

to move about freely or at will; wander; to speak or write at length or in detail

Fulminate

to utter or send out with denunciation

Maudlin

drunk enough to be emotionally silly; weakly and effusively sentimental

Tenable

reasonable; logical defensible

Anthology

a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music; assortment

Ardor

an often restless or transitory feeling
extreme vigor or energy
intensity or loyalty zeal